Garry’s Mod sells one million copies
Back in 2004, Garry’s Mod turned Valve’s Source Engine into a toybox. Its intuitive UI, straightforward controls and building tools removed the programming barriers needed to be creative with Source. Since then, hundreds of thousands of people have used the mod to attach rockets to the G-Man’s head, build a giant robots or mess around with the physics system. The community has created hundreds of new game modes, mods and machinima using the tools.
Today, developer Garry Newman posts on his his site to announce that Garry’s Mod has now sold more than a million copies since its launch on Steam in 2007.
Epic bangs: 5 of Garry’s Mod’s most ridiculous explosions
The great thing about Garry’s Mod is that it simply gives you an arena and gives you all the tools needed to build anything you want. Many Garry’s Mod players have found that the best part of building something is the bit at the end when you use a nuclear bomb to blast it to smithereens. Read on for a selection of the biggest and best Garry’s Mod explosions.
Community heroes: Garry Newman, for Garry’s Mod
This week on the site, we want to celebrate some of the heroes of the PC gaming community. People who’ve devoted huge amounts of their free time to making something awesome for the rest of us to enjoy. Some of them, like today’s hero, were so successful that they’ve been able to go professional. But all of them started by doing something for nothing, and this us doffing our journalist caps to that. Today we’re talking to Garry Newman, the creator of the amazing physics and face-posing playground Garry’s Mod.
